Cabinet sources say the word (which was introduced at Chequers and seen as requiring widespread single market alignment) has been consciously dropped and that’s the proof this is not Chequers and something closer to FTA plus.... https://t.co/gT2UJvcjFu

Unfortunately for the PM it did not seem to land with the people it was aimed at in the Commons indeed one senior Brexiter MP called it a “daft whipping tactic designed to persuade us to back the permanent purgatory of the backstop. It won’t work”.

Here is Tom Kibasi, director of the IPPR thinktank, on the political declaration.

The political declaration confirms that Britain is heading for a hard Brexit—if it can solve the Irish border problem and avoid the backstop.

The language is warm but the message is brutal: if the UK aligns to EU regulations, trade will be easier. But no one should be in any doubt that this declaration rules out frictionless trade. And should the UK diverge its regulatory framework new barriers will be erected.

The EU is a regulatory and trade superpower and has asserted its strength in this declaration, not least by the UK conceding to a permanent role for the European court of justice in dispute resolution.

The political declaration will only deepen the prime minister’s political problems: a Brexit that both disrupts trade and breaches red lines on the role of the ECJ is unlikely to gather significant support from either side of the divide.

This is from Michael Russell, the Scottish government’s constitutional relations secretary.

Michael Russell (@Feorlean)

Scots Tory MPs letter to PM on 14/11 says specifically that “access and quota shares cannot be included in the Future Economic Partnership”. Political Declaration now agreed shows they have been. The 13 therefore cant support May’s #Brexit deal ( including @DavidMundellDCT ) pic.twitter.com/KpqFQ1oM9a

The Institute for Government has published a very thorough analysis of the political declaration, set out in a huge table. The whole thing is here, and here is an extract which, even if it is hard to read, at least shows how it is set out.

No 10 confirms Chequers plan no longer blueprint for future relationship with EU

Dan Sabbagh

Number 10 confirmed that Chequers had been ditched, or rather superseded by the more open ended political declaration in a briefing for journalists. The prime minister official spokesman said that “the basis we move forward is the political declaration” as published today, which makes no explicit reference to the core Chequers principle of committing the UK to following the EU’s common rule book for food and goods in the long term.

When asked if “Chequers had been chucked,” the spokesman added:

What the document provides for us to pursue whichever option we so chose. We were told that the choice was binary, Norway or Canada; what you can see from the declaration is that there is a spectrum.

Neil O’Brien, a Conservative, says he spent eight years campaigning for a referendum. He says he never expected to be standing here with the text in his hand of a new trade relationship with the EU. He says holding another referendum would be a betrayal.

Ross Thomson, the Scottish Conservative, asks about Sabine Weyand’s tweet. (See 4.19pm.) He asks for an assurance that a future agreement will never link access to UK fishing waters to access for the UK to the single market. Can May give him that assurance in writing.

May says it was in her opening statement, so it is in Hansard. She said: “The fisheries agreement is not something we will be trading off against any other priorities.”

This is what Thompson tweeted earlier.

Ross Thomson MP (@RossThomson_MP)

🐟The political declaration commits UK to "establish a new fisheries agreement on, inter allia, access to waters and quota shares". This means sovereignty over our waters sacrificed for a trade deal. That is unacceptable. We must be a normal Independent coastal state like Norway. pic.twitter.com/wRCzdSNahf

No 10 says there will never be second referendum while May PM

These are from my colleague Pippa Crerar, who has been to the lobby briefing.

Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar)

Downing Street makes clear they have no more negotiating demands from Brussels ahead of summit on Sunday. Spox says no prospect of schedules/ addenda to withdrawal a/m to make it more politically palatable at home.